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Brought to you by Penguin. If there's one thing that Joanne McNally knows it's that we may have smart phones, Prozac and Prosecco, but we're still just animals trying to survive. And in Femme Feral, she explores the chaos and exhilaration that results from following our basic instincts. Blending...

Pleasingly tall comedian Pierre Novellie (star of The Frank Skinner Show and BudPod) uses his unique style of erudite bafflement to focus on the deep and the shallow in a comedic answer to In Our Time. Join Pierre Novellie – “a master of standup” (Guardian) – for a “scintillating mix...

Tim Key returns with more comic chaos, musically supported by Tom Basden Award-winning comedian Tim Key is back with three more series of his peculiar poetry programme. Having presented the show from a houseboat, a space simulator and the top of the Shard, he now ventures even further afield in...

This book is an original study of one scene in one movie: the shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, and it includes extended interviews with individuals who worked on the original film—including Janet Leigh, Hilton Green, and Joseph Stefano. The chapters take a range of approaches to...

Horror Podcasting argues that podcasting, as an aural medium, is about the mind. Horror is an inward-style of storytelling, and yet the reception of the podcast can be an embodied form of listening. This intersection creates conditions for a subject/listener collapse (which results in immersion)...

The complete series 27 of the popular impressions show, plus two Specials The popular topical comedy show is back with another helping of political vituperation, media mauling and celebrity savaging. So sit back and treat your ears to a bumper helping of superb satirical impressions from the...

With assistance from Lizzy Goodman and Rob Sheffield, beloved music journalist Marc Spitz’s final work explores the myriad ways that music and movies have always been linked. Each of the films herein, whether huge or small, reflect the zeitgeist and has pushed both the medium and our culture...

An essential history of modern Black cinema, as led by avant-garde filmmaker, director, novelist, composer, and playwright Melvin Van Peebles. Beg Borrow Steal, a title inspired by Black artists’ make-a-way-out-of-no-way ethos, is a stirring and remarkable deep dive into Black independent film...

A fascinating retrospective on the life and career of one of Hollywood's most enigmatic actors. Peppard's bad boy reputation – mostly for unsolicited script-writing, advice for directors, and an ingrained distrust of producers – also was reflected in untoward opinions of him from his leading ladies who disliked him enough to say so in no uncertain terms. But another one, Elizabeth Ashley, married him – twice. Peppard married five times, and the alimony payments and other debts, plus increased drinking, sent him to rock-bottom in 1978...

A reflection on how to listen and pay attention amid the constant noise that saturates our public and private lives. From podcasts sounding through earbuds to talk shows blaring from televisions, from the continuous stream of social media on our phones to doctors’ waiting rooms with pumped-in...

In dieser Folge wird Casanova von seiner Leidenschaft genötigt, einer jungen Theologin den Hof zu machen, wobei sich bei einem Abendessen in Gesellschaft, an welchem religiöse Spezialfragen erörtert werden, herausstellt, dass die weibliche Gottesprofi weniger auf den Kopf gefallen ist als man annehmen könnte – für theologische Maßstäbe. Selbstverständlich bekommt Casanova noch, was er immer anstrebt, und als kleines Extra dazu eine charmante Freundin, mit welcher man als verständnisvolles Trio die Zeit zu genießen versteht.

A minute-by-minute analysis of Richard Linklater’s 1993 film, Dazed and Confused. Blending film criticism with creative nonfiction, each book in the Timecodes series focuses on one film, exploring it minute by minute beginning with minute one, and ending with the final minute before the...

How is the individual and the ‘nation’ constructed and promoted in American theatre? How does theatre enable a nation to invent and reinvent itself? Who are the ‘people’ in ‘We the People’? This brief study examines the intersection of the USA’s sense of self with its theatre...

What is a dramaturg? What is dramaturgy? What are the political implications for the way that plays produce meaning in performance? Over the last decade, the role of the dramaturg has become more common in the theatrical process, but it is still a new term for many theatre-goers. Theatre &...

Bloomsbury presents Theatre and Tourism by Margaret Werry, read by Laurence Bouvard. How does tourism impact theatre? How do theatrical ways of seeing, knowing, and acting shape tourism? How do economic and political processes like colonization or neoliberalization influence them both? And what...

Theatre and Race centers on the interrelationship of the words on either side of the ampersand. It offers an accessible overview of how race is performed and how western theatrical practice has wrestled with the topic, question, and “problem” of racial difference over centuries. This study...

Step inside the mad, mad world of Johnny Depp—one of the most famous, unique, and controversial actors of all time—and find the story of his unconventional life from Mark Seal, the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli. In 1983 high-school dropout Johnny Depp...

Die selbst verfasste Biografie des größten Frauenhelden und Herzensbrecher der alten Zeit erstaunt durch deren Natürlichkeit und Lebendigkeit im Schreibstil. Verwundert reibt man sich die Ohren über diesen europäischen Lebemann der Superlative. Als Sohn einer Schauspielerin, deren sterbliche Überreste damals noch auf den Kadaver-Sammelplätzen vor den Toren der Städte entsorgt wurden, legt dieser Künstlersohn eine Lebens-Karriere hin, die einem den Atem stocken lässt.

Dive into the tumultuous life of Robert Downey Jr., a Hollywood icon whose journey from stardom to the brink of destruction reveals the complexities of fame and redemption. This comprehensive account chronicles Robert Downey Jr.'s extraordinary life and career, exploring his rise to fame through...

From Oxford lecturer in mathematics and math YouTuber Tom Crawford, a humorous, rigorous, and surprisingly profound dive into the math of popular culture How would an actuary price out the risk of Frodo Baggins’s journey to Mount Doom? How many calories must Charizard consume each day to keep...